Quotes About Christian Martyrdom

#1. A christian martyrdom is never an accident, for Saints are not made by accident.

T. S. Eliot

#2. I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

Sigrid Undset

#3. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.

Lawrence Bossidy

#4. May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

Cyprian

#5. Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. You are the end, and the beginning.
...
When I die, my only regret will be that you could
never reside in my heart to hear how it sings
when you touch me.

Celeste Bradley

#7. I always want to grow and top myself.

Daron Malakian

#8. A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Maaza Mengiste

#9. The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

Norman Pirie

#11. For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

Robert Rainy

#12. Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Joseph Goebbels

#13. If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

Zosia Mamet

#15. Shakespeare is not writing Christian fantasy but Christian realism, and this entails martyrdom and suffering on the part of the innocent. This is the real world in which Shakespeare found himself.

William Shakespeare

#16. I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

Seth MacFarlane